Harvard best-seller Financial Intelligence

“On any given subject, it’s safe to say that most people don’t know what they’re talking about. That goes double for finance and accounting.” Accounting Today

“CFOs who want to promote financial literacy among the non-financial managers they work with might consider recommending this book. It reads easily without dumbing down, AND it’s comprehensive.” — CFO.com

Financial Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

Financial Intelligence was written because Joe and Karen could not find a book they felt good about recommending to their Fortune 500 training clients. The books weren’t written the way they trained. Based on training tens of thousands of managers and employees at many leading organizations, Financial Intelligence provides readers with a deep understanding of:

The basics of financial measurement: reading income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and more

The art of finance: separating hard data from assumptions and estimates, where the numbers come from

The mechanics of analysis: calculating ratios, return on investment, and working capital

Cash and profit: knowing how these terms differ, and why cash is suddenly the “hot” number in corporate boardrooms and on Wall Street

Financial literacy and transparency: recognizing how they can boost performance

Financial Intelligence is accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories from real companies. It will help non-financial managers add substantially more to their companies’ – and their own – success. If you have ever wanted to “talk numbers” confidently with your colleagues, this is the book for you.

Financial Intelligence

The Harvard best seller has been transformed into a graphic novel published by SmarterComics.

Want to know what accounting numbers really mean without flatlining your pulse? Ditch the dry numbers and allow the authors, through the story of Tom’s bike shop, to give you easy-to-understand pointers on assets, liabilities, income statements and other finance and accounting tools of the trade. Whether your business is a sole proprietorship or a 5,000 employee corporation, these vividly illustrated financial concepts and tools will keep you in the black without making you see red.

Need help calculating ROI?

It doesn’t have to be stressful or time consuming, Joe Knight wrote the Return on Investment Toolkit for Harvard to help you master the key fundamentals of ROI and perform ROI analysis on your next project.

Download your copy today, included are spreadsheets ready for you to drop in your numbers.

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